Establishing Mental Health

The Establishing Mental Health study was conducted from 2013-12-16 to 2015-07-10 in Tanzania. Data were collected on participants' HIV status and various mental health measures, including the PHQ9, SDQ, and UCLA PTSD assessment. The study population comprised adolescents and youth attending the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre and later the Mawenzi Regional Referral Hospital Care and Treatment Clinic adolescent HIV clinics. These clinics are referred to as "Teen Club" or "Klubu ya Vijana". Participants were between 11 and 24 years of age and disclosed their HIV status. Not all youth were receiving antiretroviral therapy at the time of the study as the National Guidelines at the time did not offer ART to everyone; only those with CD4 350 or WHO Stage 3 or 4 disease. All adolescents and youth attending the clinic who were able to provide consent and/or assent (if 18 years old with parental consent) were eligible to enroll. Enrollment took place by announcing the study in clinic and interested participants signing up to state interest and later participating in the consent process. There was no formal power calculation. All data within the AMANI collection is restricted to protect confidentiality. You may request access to a dataset by contacting the data depositor at the email address provided under the Terms of Service.